THE ASSIGNMENT OF NUMBERS TO RANK ORDER CATEGORIES.

By both random and nonrandom assignments of numbers to rank orders (which are consistent with the monotonic nature of the categories), it is shown that ordinal variables can be treated as if they conform to interval scales. The scoring systems, of which 18 were randomly generated by a computer, resu...

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Publicado en:American Sociological Review Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 515 - 525
Autor principal: Labovitz, Sanford
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Jun70
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